(backend) add telephony service for automatic SIP dispatch rules

Implemented a service that automatically creates a SIP dispatch rule when
the first WebRTC participant joins a room and removes it when the room
becomes empty.

Why? I don’t want a SIP participant to join an empty room.
The PIN code could be easily leaked, and there is currently no lobby
mechanism available for SIP participants.

A WebRTC participant is still required to create a room.
This behavior is inspired by a proprietary tool. The service uses LiveKit’s
webhook notification system to react to room lifecycle events. This is
a naive implementation that currently supports only a single SIP trunk and
will require refactoring to support multiple trunks. When no trunk is
specified, rules are created by default on a fallback trunk.

@rouja wrote a minimal Helm chart for LiveKit SIP with Asterisk, which
couldn’t be versioned yet due to embedded credentials. I deployed it
locally and successfully tested the integration with a remote
OVH SIP trunk.

One point to note: LiveKit lacks advanced filtering capabilities when
listing dispatch rules. Their recommendation is to fetch all rules and
filter them within your backend logic. I’ve opened a feature request asking
for at least the ability to filter dispatch rules by room, since filtering
by trunk is already supported, room-based filtering feels like a natural
addition.

Until there's an update, I prefer to keep the implementation simple.
It works well at our current scale, and can be refactored when higher load
or multi-trunk support becomes necessary.

While caching dispatch rule IDs could be a performance optimization,
I feel it would be premature and potentially error-prone due to the complexity
of invalidation. If performance becomes an issue, I’ll consider introducing
caching at that point. To handle the edge case where multiple dispatch rules
with different PIN codes are present, the service performs an extensive
cleanup during room creation to ensure SIP routing remains clean and
predictable. This edge case should not happen.

In the 'delete_dispatch_rule' if deleting one rule fails, method would exit
without deleting the other rules. It's okay IMO for a first iteration.
If multiple dispatch rules are often found for room, I would enhance this part.
This commit is contained in:
lebaudantoine
2025-07-01 17:59:45 +02:00
committed by aleb_the_flash
parent d3178eff5d
commit 988e5aa256
5 changed files with 604 additions and 15 deletions

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@@ -2,12 +2,18 @@
import uuid
from enum import Enum
from logging import getLogger
from django.conf import settings
from livekit import api
from core import models
from .lobby import LobbyService
from .telephony import TelephonyException, TelephonyService
logger = getLogger(__name__)
class LiveKitWebhookError(Exception):
@@ -77,6 +83,7 @@ class LiveKitEventsService:
)
self.webhook_receiver = api.WebhookReceiver(token_verifier)
self.lobby_service = LobbyService()
self.telephony_service = TelephonyService()
def receive(self, request):
"""Process webhook and route to appropriate handler."""
@@ -108,10 +115,54 @@ class LiveKitEventsService:
# pylint: disable=not-callable
handler(data)
def _handle_room_finished(self, data):
"""Handle 'room_finished' event."""
def _handle_room_started(self, data):
"""Handle 'room_started' event."""
try:
room_id = uuid.UUID(data.room.name)
except ValueError as e:
logger.warning(
"Ignoring room event: room name '%s' is not a valid UUID format.",
data.room.name,
)
raise ActionFailedError("Failed to process room started event") from e
try:
room = models.Room.objects.get(id=room_id)
except models.Room.DoesNotExist as err:
raise ActionFailedError(f"Room with ID {room_id} does not exist") from err
if settings.ROOM_TELEPHONY_ENABLED:
try:
self.telephony_service.create_dispatch_rule(room)
except TelephonyException as e:
raise ActionFailedError(
f"Failed to create telephony dispatch rule for room {room_id}"
) from e
def _handle_room_finished(self, data):
"""Handle 'room_finished' event."""
try:
room_id = uuid.UUID(data.room.name)
except ValueError as e:
logger.warning(
"Ignoring room event: room name '%s' is not a valid UUID format.",
data.room.name,
)
raise ActionFailedError("Failed to process room finished event") from e
if settings.ROOM_TELEPHONY_ENABLED:
try:
self.telephony_service.delete_dispatch_rule(room_id)
except TelephonyException as e:
raise ActionFailedError(
f"Failed to delete telephony dispatch rule for room {room_id}"
) from e
try:
self.lobby_service.clear_room_cache(room_id)
except Exception as e:
raise ActionFailedError("Failed to process room finished event") from e
raise ActionFailedError(
f"Failed to clear room cache for room {room_id}"
) from e

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@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
"""Telephony service for managing SIP dispatch rules for room access."""
from logging import getLogger
from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync
from livekit.api import TwirpError
from livekit.protocol.sip import (
CreateSIPDispatchRuleRequest,
DeleteSIPDispatchRuleRequest,
ListSIPDispatchRuleRequest,
SIPDispatchRule,
SIPDispatchRuleDirect,
)
from core import utils
logger = getLogger(__name__)
class TelephonyException(Exception):
"""Exception raised when telephony operations fail."""
class TelephonyService:
"""Service for managing participant access through the telephony system (SIP)."""
def _rule_name(self, room_id):
"""Generate the rule name for a room based on its ID."""
return f"SIP_{str(room_id)}"
@async_to_sync
async def create_dispatch_rule(self, room):
"""Create a SIP inbound dispatch rule for direct room routing.
Configures telephony to route incoming SIP calls directly to the specified room
using the room's ID and PIN code for authentication.
"""
direct_rule = SIPDispatchRule(
dispatch_rule_direct=SIPDispatchRuleDirect(
room_name=str(room.id), pin=str(room.pin_code)
)
)
request = CreateSIPDispatchRuleRequest(
rule=direct_rule, name=self._rule_name(room.id)
)
lkapi = utils.create_livekit_client()
try:
await lkapi.sip.create_sip_dispatch_rule(create=request)
except TwirpError as e:
logger.exception(
"Unexpected error creating dispatch rule for room %s", room.id
)
raise TelephonyException("Could not create dispatch rule") from e
finally:
await lkapi.aclose()
async def _list_dispatch_rules_ids(self, room_id):
"""List SIP dispatch rule IDs for a specific room.
Fetches all existing SIP dispatch rules and filters them by room name
since LiveKit API doesn't support server-side filtering by 'room_name'.
This approach is acceptable for moderate scale but may need refactoring
for high-volume scenarios.
Note:
Feature request for server-side filtering: livekit/sip#405
"""
lkapi = utils.create_livekit_client()
try:
existing_rules = await lkapi.sip.list_sip_dispatch_rule(
list=ListSIPDispatchRuleRequest()
)
except TwirpError as e:
logger.exception("Failed to list dispatch rules for room %s", room_id)
raise TelephonyException("Could not list dispatch rules") from e
finally:
await lkapi.aclose()
if not existing_rules or not existing_rules.items:
return []
rule_name = self._rule_name(room_id)
return [
existing_rule.sip_dispatch_rule_id
for existing_rule in existing_rules.items
if existing_rule.name == rule_name
]
@async_to_sync
async def delete_dispatch_rule(self, room_id):
"""Delete all SIP inbound dispatch rules associated with a specific room."""
rules_ids = await self._list_dispatch_rules_ids(room_id)
if not rules_ids:
logger.info("No dispatch rules found for room %s", room_id)
return False
if len(rules_ids) > 1:
logger.error("Multiple dispatch rules found for room %s", room_id)
lkapi = utils.create_livekit_client()
try:
for rule_id in rules_ids:
await lkapi.sip.delete_sip_dispatch_rule(
delete=DeleteSIPDispatchRuleRequest(sip_dispatch_rule_id=rule_id)
)
return True
except TwirpError as e:
logger.exception("Failed to delete dispatch rules for room %s", room_id)
raise TelephonyException("Could not delete dispatch rules") from e
finally:
await lkapi.aclose()